Her work has been recognized several times including the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize, the appointment as Knight of the Legion of Honor and her election to the French Academy of Sciences.
[1] Born in 1970, Palanque-Delabrouille earned an engineering degree from Télécom Paris in 1992 and became a research assistant in the physics department at the University of Chicago.
In 1997, Palanque-Delabrouille defended her doctoral thesis Research on galactic dark matter by gravitational microlensing effect in joint supervision between the University of Chicago and the Paris Diderot University, directed by David Schramm and E.
[2] From 2002 to 2011, Palanque-Delabrouille participated in the corrections of the physics tests for the entrance examination to the École Polytechnique.
According to the French National Academy of Sciences, She contributed to disproving the existence of dark stars to explain the dark matter of our Galaxy, led the first studies of underwater sites for the deployment of a neutrino detector, analyzed stellar explosions, mapped the Cosmos and developed colossal simulations of our Universe to solve the mystery of its accelerating expansion.